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Conflicting Priorities
This is another big challenge that can derail your resolutions, simply because you must make them a high priority! You know what you want and you know what you need to do to get it, but following through can sometimes be difficult.
You may have demands in other areas of your life, such as family or work that threaten your ability to stick to your plans.
You may also have a lot of distractions that make it hard to stay focused.
Conflicting priorities can cause such a heavy sense of defeat that you may be tempted to give up on your goals altogether.
The Remedy: The good news is that there are several ways to handle these challenges.
•1 First, consider whether your distractions might actually be coming from YOU. You may be creating chaos without realizing it. For example, if you have a fear of success or failure related to your goals, you may find yourself agreeing to extra obligations so you can avoid working on them. Or you may procrastinate to the point where everything comes due at once so you’ are scrambling to meet deadlines at the last minute. Sometimes what seem to be outer distractions may actually be caused by inner conflict. That would be the first place to look, and resolve any issues you find.
•2 If you discover that you’are not sabotaging your efforts but still have a lot of chaos and disorder in your life, do what you can to get balanced and organized again. You may need to cancel a few unnecessary obligations so you’ll have more time to work on your goals, or speak to your family members and ask for their support and cooperation.
3• Understand that “priority” means taking precedence in order of importance. That means you’ will probably have to decide what’s most important to you, moment to moment. Just how important is your goal? Is it more or less important than your other obligations and commitments? If your goal is truly important to you, you will do what it takes to make time for working on it – no matter how much juggling you may have to do. As you work on improving your ability to prioritize and focus better, you’ll probably notice that the two seem to complement each other. Having a strong focus enables you to better prioritize your activities, while a balanced and properly prioritized life also makes it easier to stay focused! Lack of Commitment
This challenge goes hand in hand with prioritizing because if you are not truly committed to your goal, you simply won’t make it a priority in your life.
When you first set a resolution, you are “resolving” to do something. That means pledging, or swearing to the fact that you will follow through. But how often do you really mean this when you set goals?
What many of us do instead is attach little addendums to our pledge, like staying committed until we lose interest or obstacles threaten our confidence. That’s why getting crystal clear about what you really want is so important. You’re much more likely to go the distance for something you want badly rather than a vague desire.Still, no matter your objective, you’ll need to make a firm commitment to achieving it– NO MATTER WHAT. That’s what commitment is; a pledge of constancy and loyalty.
The Remedy:
So how do you get committed, and STAY committed to a goal? The number one way is to make your goal so vitally important priority.